Automated Filtering vs Human-Powered Curation » Browse My Stuff - 4 views
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awqi zar on 21 Sep 10With solutions like Paper.li and Browse My Stuff grabbing attention, and with people like Robin Good doing a series on Real-Time News Curation, and Ross Dawson tells us has curation has hit the tipping point, it seems like the concepts of curation, aggregation, filtering are suddenly a central conversation. Of course, this has long been a conversation as Robin, Ross or I could tell you. However, what has really changed here is first the explosion of content sources. As Robin put it: "You cannot follow and keep yourself updated in an effective way by simply subscribing to as many sources as possible." I would also say that what has really changed is the sophistication of automated filtering to deal with extracting value from the noise. I had an interesting exchange with Robin around the question of what constitutes filtering and how that differs from curation. I'll get to that in a bit. Let' me first provide some background on filtering.